Campbell Collections
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Sezela Sugar Mill |
Sezela Sugar Mill |
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Skippy |
Self. 1941 |
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Sezela Sugar Mill |
Sezela Sugar Mill |
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Sezela Sugar Mill |
Sezela Sugar Mill |
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Self |
Self, 1941 |
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Gran and Dad |
Gran and Dad, 1938. |
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Self |
Self, 1941. |
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Sezela Sugar Mill |
Sezela Sugar Mill |
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Iris.S. Henderson parents |
Henderson parents, mom and dad, 1938. |
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Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Madela with the ladle for fetching the clouds during a thunderstorm, "ukuphaka izulu" (to ladle out-as food-the heaven) Cf. "Medizinen", plate 14 and pp. 84, 85. |
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Sezela Sugar Mill |
Sezela Sugar Mill |
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Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
The round stone from the river smeared both flat sides crosswise with black anti-lightning medicine |
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Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Madela has the rod in his left hand and the stone in his right hand. |
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A view of the town and Island of St Helena (B) |
Black and white scene of St Helena. |
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Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma demonstrate how he prevents the lightning to strke his kraal by means of a lightning-rod partly smeared with anti-lightning medicine. Madela turns slowly to the four quarters of the globe pointing with the rod towards the heaven. He changes the hands in which he holds the rod. |
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"Ceremonie des peuples de Guinee pour la circumcision" |
Black and white abstracts of a circumsion of an infant ceremony in Guinee. |
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Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Hlomeleni Madela, Laduma's unmarried daughter, takes the chance to expose her little granddaughter to smoke of "wild animals"= inyamazane, to make the baby strong and healthy. |
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Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
In Bafungile's house: Two healing methods combined, "inyamazane" and " chasing awya evat ghost or evil spirit" 1. "Inyamazane"= wild animals (remains) i.e. inhale smoke of small parts of burned animals, especially antelops, put in potsherd. This method is called "ukuhogela", i.e. |
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'Suplices de people de Guinee' |
Black and white scene of men fighting with another being slain. |
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Visit to Laduma Madela's kraal in March and April 1979 |
Laduma, sitting on Bafungile's bed, scraping goat horns to prepare them as medicine containers. He works them on a wooden head rest, turned upside down. In the foreground a very low table with one of the two armlets Madela is preparing from genet skin. |